It’s not just about looking and copying, it’s about feeling too.
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It’s not just about looking and copying, it’s about feeling too.
PAUL CEZANNEThe sun penetrates me soundlessly like a distant friend that stirs up my laziness, fertilizes it. We bring forth life.
PAUL CEZANNEPeople think how a sugar basin has no physiognomy, no soul. But it changes every day.
PAUL CEZANNENature is the best instructor.
PAUL CEZANNEI have not tried to reproduce nature; I have represented it.
PAUL CEZANNEShadow is a colour as light is, but less brilliant; light and shadow are only the relation of two tones.
PAUL CEZANNEOptics, developing in us through study, teach us to see.
PAUL CEZANNELight is a thing that cannot be reproduced, but must be represented by something else – by color.
PAUL CEZANNEIt is not about painting life, it is about making the painting alive.
PAUL CEZANNEPure drawing is an abstraction. Drawing and colour are not distinct, everything in nature is coloured.
PAUL CEZANNEI want to die painting.
PAUL CEZANNEI ask you to pray for me, for once age has overtaken us, we find consolation only in religion.
PAUL CEZANNEFor an Impressionist to paint from nature is not to paint the subject, but to realize sensations.
PAUL CEZANNEAll the theories mess you up inside.
PAUL CEZANNEThe artist makes things concrete and gives them individuality.
PAUL CEZANNEThe approbation of others is a stimulus of which one must sometimes be wary. The feeling of one’s own strength makes one modest.
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